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Assen WSBK: Bautista wins again, Rea's P2 streak broken
Alvaro Bautista was victorious yet again in the final World Superbike race at Assen as Jonathan Rea's streak of second-place finishes was ended by local hero Michael van der Mark.
David Gruz
Edited: Apr 14, 2019, 12:48 PM
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Rea had a brilliant start from eighth on the grid and led five corners into the race, but the Kawasaki rider did not pull away from Bautista and instead led a group involving several riders.
While Bautista was cautious in the early stages and did not challenge Rea, others were unable to demote the Ducati rider despite him being closely followed by the likes of van der Mark and Leon Haslam.
As his teammate Chaz Davies moved up to third, Bautista finally made a move on Rea at Turn 8 and his teammate followed suit a corner later.
Rea was even temporarily passed by van der Mark and while the Northern Irishman quickly retook second, this was all Bautista needed to escape the reigning champion.
The gap between the top two stagnated for a handful of laps before Bautista started to gradually stretch his advantage, and he took the chequered flag by 4.6s.
Once his victory challenge was over, Rea came under pressure from van der Mark, and the Dutchman pulled off a brave move on the way into the Turn 17-18 chicane with three laps remaining.
Rea did not drop back and was all over Van der Mark at the chequered flag, but the latter secured second by 0.018s, meaning Rea's streak of second-place finishes ends at 10.
Alex Lowes took fourth but was more than 10 seconds behind Bautista, whose teammate Davies ended up fifth.
BMW duo Markus Reiterberger and Tom Sykes took sixth and seventh with Haslam dropping to eighth despite being in podium contention early on.
The top 10 was completed by privateer Kawasaki riders - Puccetti's Toprak Razgatlioglu and Pedercini's Jordi Torres.
Race results
Cla Rider Bike Laps Time Gap 1 
Alvaro Bautista Ducati 21 33'28.682 2 
Michael van der Mark Yamaha 21 33'33.370 4.688 3 
Jonathan Rea Kawasaki 21 33'33.388 4.706 4 Alex Lowes Yamaha 21 33'38.755 10.073 5 Chaz Davies Ducati 21 33'42.349 13.667 6 
Markus Reiterberger BMW 21 33'44.055 15.373 7 Tom Sykes BMW 21 33'44.069 15.387 8 Leon Haslam Kawasaki 21 33'49.597 20.915 9 
Toprak Razgatlioglu Kawasaki 21 33'51.604 22.922 10 Jordi Torres Kawasaki 21 33'52.200 23.518 11 Sandro Cortese Yamaha 21 33'56.968 28.286 12 Leon Camier Honda 21 34'04.721 36.039 13 
Eugene Laverty Ducati 21 34'05.041 36.359 14 
Marco Melandri Yamaha 21 34'05.577 36.895 15 Michael Ruben Rinaldi Ducati 21 34'05.595 36.913 16 Hector Barbera Kawasaki 21 34'05.777 37.095 17 Alessandro Delbianco Honda 20 34'38.882 1 Lap 
Ryuichi Kiyonari Honda 16 5 laps 5 Laps
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